Venture Capital
AMK Investment Office makes opportunistic investments in venture capital funds as well as directly in companies with strong management teams, that have significant growth potential on a global basis. Our investments vary in stage from early to late, covering a broad range of sectors.
Below are some examples of our diversified investments
Funds:
Clocktower Technology Ventures
Clocktower Technology Ventures (CTV) Fund 2 and the CTV Opps Fund are top tier fintech venture capital funds, investing and following on in US as well as global financial technology companies. Based in Los Angeles, CTV is the technology investing affiliate of Clocktower Group.
CTV partners with phenomenal entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to reinvent financial services, investing from the earliest seeds of startup life to businesses scaling for growth. The firm supports leading companies across all sectors of financial services, including lending, payments, insurance, asset management, personal finance, and capital markets. Their distinctive approach to fintech venture capital is crafted around a curated network of global macroeconomic thinkers and investors.
Website:www.clocktowerventures.com
Yasi Ventures
Yasi Ventures (AAF II) is a US based venture capital fund investing in Seed/Series A companies that have international expansion opportunities.
Yasi Ventures is the second fund managed by AAF Management Ltd (AAF). AAF is a strategic venture capital firm that provides their companies unprecedented access to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the larger Middle East & North Africa (MENA), as well as Western Asia markets.
Website:www.aaf.vc
Harpoon
Harpoon is an early stage venture capital firm based in California that is specialised in B2G companies.
Harpoon Fund II & Harpoon Fund III
Website:www.harpoon.vc
I Squared Capital - Infratech Fund LP
The Infratech Fund LP is I Squared Capital's venture fund, investing in infrastructure technology and using their vast expertise to add value to their portfolio companies.
I Squared Capital is a private equity firm focusing on global infrastructure investments. The company invests in energy, utilities, transport and telecom projects in North America, Europe and select high growth economies, such as India and China.
Website:www.isquaredcapital.com
Valia Ventures
Valia Ventures Fund I - Valia Ventures Fund I is Valia Ventures's first flagship fund investing in the most iconic seed and early stage companies.
Valia Venture Partners Fund (VVP) - VVP is Valia Ventures's early stage fund investing in technology companies and utilising its coalition of investors from MENA region family offices, in order to create value.
Valia Ventures is a US based venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.
Website:www.valia.vc
Cortical Ventures
Cortical Ventures Fund I is a top tier, US based, venture capital fund focused on AI and Machine Learning.
Based in San Francisco, Cortical Ventures is a venture capital firm combining human expertise and machine intelligence to back and build the AI revolution. Cortical exists to invent, invest, and incubate artificial intelligence companies.
Website:www.cortical.vc
Silicon Badia - UNBOUND Ventures
Unbound Ventures is a diversified US based venture fund managed by Silicon Badia. Unbound is designed to invest and seek diversified exposure to the best in the U.S startup ecosystem.
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm that partners with passionate, bold entrepreneurs to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
Website:www.siliconbadia.com
Wellington Capital
Hadley Harbor Fund IV is Wellington Management's fourth fund investing in late stage private companies of the highest pedigree. The fund focuses on companies that are approaching the next stage of development typically consisting of a liquidity event (IPO or acquisition).
Wellington Management is one of the largest private and independent investment management firms, with assets under management exceeding $1 trillion USD. Wellington Management is based in Boston Massachusetts, USA.
Website:www.wellington.com
BECO Capital
BECO Capital Booster Fund II and BECO Capital Booster Fund III are early stage venture capital funds in the UAE with a vision to reinvent the Middle East through innovation and technology entrepreneurship.
BECO Capital is one of the leading venture capital firms in the MENA region with investments in some of the "Most promising Arab start ups" selected by the World Economic Forum in 2019.
Website:www.becocapital.com
Global Ventures
Global Ventures Fund I & Fund II are Dubai based, growth venture funds focused on enterprise technology, health-tech, and consumer technology investments. Global Ventures invests in MENA regional start-ups with a global scale.
With offices based in Dubai and a superior team across the globe with a worldly perspective, Global Ventures backs founders creating innovative and disruptive companies while bridging the gap for industry veterans/founders between the east and west.
Website:www.global.vc
COTU Ventures
COTU Champions Fund I is a leading seed stage venture capital fund in the Middle East.
Based in Dubai, Cotu Ventures partners with incredible founders at the beginning of their journey; taking companies from Pre-seed through to Series A and beyond, accelerating their path to product-market fit and ensuring that they get access to the right capital and expertise along the way.
Website:www.cotu.vc
MEVP
MEVFIII is a Middle East-focused venture capital fund managed by MEVP, that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative technology companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East Region with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries.
With offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi as well as more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management, MEVP is one of the largest and most established VC firms in this region, with a clear cross border investment appetite.
Website:www.mevp.com
Precision Health Corporation (SkyViews Life Science)
Precision Health Corporation (PHC) is an investment vehicle investing in the world's leading growth companies in digital health, advanced nutrition and bio-technology. PHC is managed by Skyviews Life Science.
SkyViews Life Science is a privately held advisory and investment company specialised in precision health and longevity.
Website:www.skyviewslifescience.com
Hoxton Ventures
Hoxton Ventures III is a top tier venture capital fund investing in Europe's best global tech companies at the earliest of stages.
Hoxton Ventures is a leading London based venture capital firm investing in the best European tech companies with a global reach. Having backed companies like DARKTRACE, Deliveroo, Epic Games, and Babylon; Hoxton focuses exclusively on startups with the potential to scale to new markets.
Website:www.hoxtonventures.com
Anamcara Capital
Anamcara Capital is a pre-/seed stage B2B venture firm based in Abu Dhabi with a focus on making investments in Europe.
Anamcara Fund I invests in technology verticals such as cloud-based software, online commerce, marketplaces, fintech, future of work, supply chain management, creator economy and decentralised technologies with a focus on companies creating value for SMBs.
Website:www.anamcaracapital.com
Seraphim Space Fund
The Seraphim Space Fund invests in early-stage space tech firms within the rapidly growing industry, including firms that rely on space-based connectivity or precision, navigation and timing signals, or companies whose services are already potentially benefiting the space sector.
The Seraphim Space Fund is backed by leading “space corporates” and international space agencies, including investors in Airbus, SES, Teledyne, Telespazio, SSTL and accelerator partnerships including Rolls Royce, Inmarsat, European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
Website:www.seraphim.vc
Omakase Investment Club
Omakase Investment Club (OIC) is a food & beverage venture capital firm investing in early stage companies in the food & beverage industry. OIC is managed by Omar AlKhawaja, Zeid Zabian, and AMK Investment Office’s team in London.
OIC’s members are made up of 12 like minded and influential young investors from the MENA region offering significant strategic value and experience alongside their capital.
Website:www.omakase.vc
AUR CAPITAL
AUR Equity is an Egyptian real estate development growth fund investing in yielding commercial property, managed by AUR Capital.
AUR Capital is a private equity firm with $2.35bn assets under management. The company’s vision is to create the premier private equity firm in Egypt by generating superior returns to investors and building a long-term relationship with partners.
Website:www.aurcapital.com
Companies:
Humane
Humane is an AI software and hardware company, building technology not for the world as it exists today but as it could be tomorrow. Founded by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno (both formally of Apple), Humane is rethinking, reconsidering, and remembering honest human connection in the context of computing, they seek to reshape the role of technology in our lives.
*Co-Investment with Valia Ventures
Website:www.hu.ma.ne
Revolut
Revolut is one of the largest financial technology companies that offers complete banking services. Headquartered in London, it was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko. It offers accounts featuring currency exchange, debit cards, virtual cards, Apple Pay, interest-bearing "vaults", commission-free stock trading, crypto, commodities, and other services.
*Co-Investment with Giano Capital
Website:www.revolut.com
Forward
Forward is a late stage health-tech company with a focus on preventative healthcare. Forward is a Provider of concierge primary care clinics designed to integrate advanced technology with personalized patient care. The company's subscription-based clinics connect with patients through its mobile app and leverage technology such as AI, IoT, mobile devices and a natural language processing systems to enhance services including body scanning, genetic screening, real-time blood testing and home monitoring of vitals, providing members with greater control over their health, increased transparency and improved collaboration with their primary care doctor.
Website:www.goforward.com
M1 Finance
M1 Finance is a Chigaco based, online financial services and wealth management platform that combines investing, borrowing, and cash management into one easy-to-use, free interface. Users can invest in over 80 expert portfolios, create portfolios completely customised to their financial goals (individual stocks, bonds, and/or ETFs). or build a portfolio combining the two while also benefiting from an array of cash management tools. Founded by Brian Barnes, M1 Finance is made up of experienced and investment focused people driven to transform money management for the better.
*Co-Investment with Clocktower Technology Ventures
Website:www.m1finance.com
Synthego
Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables the acceleration of life science research and development in the pursuit of improved human health. The company leverages machine learning, automation, and gene editing to build platforms for science at scale. With its foundations in engineering disciplines, the company’s platform technologies vertically integrate proprietary hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology to advance basic research, target validation, and clinical trials.
*Co-Investment with AAF Management Ltd
Website:www.synthego.com
Tribal Credit
Tribal Credit is a San Francisco based fintech company that provides payment and financing services to SMEs and startups in emerging markets who are transacting with a global world. Tribal uses technology to underwrite new SME's with very little history, and is hailed by customers from LATAM, MENA and beyond.
*Co-Investment with BECO Capital
Website:www.tribal.credit
DataRobot
DataRobot is a late stage AI and Auto-machine learning company that democratizes data science and automates the end-to-end process for building, deploying, and maintaining AI for corporations at scale. Powered by the latest open-source algorithms and available in the cloud, on-premise, or as a fully-managed AI service, DataRobot gives companies the power of AI to drive better business outcomes.
*Co-Investment with Oryx Ventures
Website:www.datarobot.com
Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American fintech company based in Ecuador that creates modern, efficient and secure payment solutions, capable of accelerating a business or opening new markets. Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to accept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Their objective is to help these businesses — such as digital banks — grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments.
*Co-Investment with Clocktower Technology Ventures
Website:www.kushki.com
LYST
Lyst is a late stage global fashion search and marketplace platform used by 70 million shoppers annually, bringing together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. Based in London, it is now the world’s leading fashion platform that connects shoppers and brands, providing the largest fashion repository online with over 8 M+ SKUs from over 16,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores. The platform offers fashion intelligence and insights based on product changes analysis and user behaviour, which is used to power industry and consumer reports.
*Co-Investment with Giano Capital
Website:www.lyst.co.uk
dara5
dara5 is an investment community bringing together members, shareholders, and ambassadors all bound together by the founding partners. The dara5 community is a young and diverse investment group investing as well as backing innovation and disruption. dara5 sources and identifies high quality companies as well as fund managers for the community to consider and back.
Website:www.dara5.com
Kitt
Kitt is a UK headquartered, PropTech and Future of Work company that works with businesses to find an office, create bespoke office designs and handle the ongoing management of these spaces. Kitt also uses its proptech platform to offer beneficial services to landlords.
Website:www.kittoffices.com
Paymob
Paymob is an infrastructure technology enabler providing payment solutions to empower digital financial service providers through mobile wallet technology. Based in Cairo, the fintech company runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa.
*Co-Investment with Global Ventures
Website:www.paymob.com
Yodawy
Yodawy is a digital pharmacy platform designed to transform the patient experience through seamless access to integrated pharmaceutical and insurance services. Yodawy solidified its first mover advantage in its primary market, Egypt, leveraging the growth of healthcare expenditure and rising medical insurance penetration.
*Co-Investment with Global Ventures
Website:www.yodawy.com
Nexford University
Nexford University is a next-generation American university. Nexford is the only tech-enabled American university born online, built for global scale and designed for the entire undergraduate to corporate learning lifecycle. Nexford serves learners across emerging markets where the average American university is unaffordable to the vast majority of learners.
Website:www.nexford.org
Supy
Supy is a digital procurement platform designed to allow restaurants to streamline their orders with suppliers, in the most efficient manner. Born out of the UAE, Supy is on a mission to be a one stop shop portal for restaurants and procurement managers across the GCC and beyond.
Website:www.supy.io
Dukkantek
Dukkantek is a store management platform designed to empower traditional merchants. They aim to strengthen local community stores through digital transformation services to improve business processes by being an end-to-end technology partner. Based in the UAE, Dukkantek provides a one-stop solution including Cloud POS, Inventory Management, Payment Options, E-Commerce and a Companion App to traditional merchants in the GCC and the wider MENA region.
Website:www.dukkantek.com
Stitch
Stitch is a first next generation card issuing platform out of Saudi Arabia serving the MENA region. Not only are they solving for the new data sovereignty rules, they are built by developers for developers, an all open API based platform with best in class developer tools fully deployed locally, and regionally to allow ease of card issuance and management.
Website:www.stitch.fi
CoinMENA
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain, CoinMENA is a Sharia-compliant digital assets exchange that is licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB). Through CoinMENA, retail investors can buy, sell, store, and receive digital assets safely and securely, as well as deposit and withdraw all over the MENA region in their local currency.
*Co-Investment with BECO Capital
Website:www.coinmena.com
Neat Co
Neat Co is a fast-growing, multi-channel food technology company providing modern consumers with sustainable and ethical products without compromising on taste. They are disrupting the food system' with their innovative, omnichannel route to market; utilising QSR, CPG, delivery and food service concurrently to pave the way for a global sustainable future.
Website:www.neat-burger.com
SIMBA
Simba Sleep Limited is an online product innovation company focused on the sleep industry with a vision to become the leading global sleep brand. Simba is a brand that relentlessly innovate, engineer and re-imagine products to address the £20bn+ global mattress market opportunity.
With well over 100,000 mattresses sold within the company's first 24 months, Simba is the #1 online mattress brand in the UK & France on a rapid expansion journey.
Website:www.simbasleep.com
Legacy
Legacy is a Harvard-incubated digital fertility clinic for men. The Company developed an at-home sperm test and provides cyro-storage solutions for men to analyze and extend their fertility. Legacy is on a mission to become the Fatherhood company that helps over 100M men on their journey to becoming a father.
*Co-Investment with Valia Ventures
Website:www.givelegacy.com
AARMY
AARMY is a luxury fitness company headquartered in New York City, founded by Trey Laird and Akin Ackman. AARMY focuses on a high standard of physical training, combined with mental conditioning and inspiration. With studios in LA, New York, and more to come along with the their digital platform allowing classes to be taken around the world, the company is transforming the fast growing boutique fitness movement and creating a new category: Community based training.
*Co-Investment with Valia Ventures
Website:www.aarmy.com